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Twitter Trend Awards Reveals Top Trending Anime Words for Each Month in 2018

Every year, the Twitter Trend Awards give out a prize to the most-tweeted words on the social media platform. Last year, Kemono Friends was dubbed Anime of the Year, leading to director TATSUKI accepting the award while wearing a penguin suit.

In the lead up to the award announcements on December 26, the Twitter Trend Awards account has been posting the most popular anime-related words on Twitter for each month. According to their tweets, the most popular words are as follows:

January

• your name.
• Shaft
• Tiger & Bunny
• Devilman
• "Takagi-san! Why you little...!" (a reference to Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san)

February

• "I've been thinking about Hellshake Yano"
• "Let's Meet At The Witch Assembly" (a tag for witch-themed art)
• Zoids World
• Pop Team Epic

March

• Ojamajo Doremi Quiz
• "A title you really want to see become an anime"
• "Gundam lol" (Gundam Wing was rebroadcast on TV during this time, and the Japanese slang word for 'lol' is 'w')
• "A rush of anime adaptations" (Refers to the anime announcements of Karakuri Circus, Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation, Dorohedoro, etc.)

April

• GeGeGe no Kitarō
• Tokyo Ghoul:re
• Zero the Enforcer (from Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer)
• Liz and the Blue Bird

May

• "Orga no. 1" (refers to the character from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans)
• Den-noh Coil
• LiSA
• Zootopia
• "Thank you, IDOLiSH7"

June

• "Wake Up, Girls! Breakup"
• Precure
• Steins;Gate 0
• JoJo

July

• DARLING in the FRANXX
• Girls und Panzer das Final
• "Four Manga That Made Me Who I Am"
• Netflix's commercial

August

• "Stop piracy"
• Code Geass the Re;surrection
• "Gintama has five episodes left"
• "Your Pancreas" (a reference to the novel and movie I want to eat your pancreas)
• "My voice actor is..." (a reference to an online application at the time that gave you the name of a voice actor who would voice your character when you input your name.)

September

• "Magia Record anime announced"
• "Sword Art Online has four cours"
• aqours
• "Azur Lane anime announced"

October

• GRIDMAN
• Railgun season 3
• Goblin Slayer
• Kemono Friends 2

November

• "Comiket costs money now"
• Hypnosis Mic Final Battle
• Sea Otter Pot (a reference to a dish featured in Golden Kamuy)
• Yuki Yuna
• Drifters

December

• Ghost in the Shell
• Cure Infini (a reference to a character in Hugtto! Precure
• Princess Principal
• "Everyone relive Liz and the Blue Bird together"

Update: "Rakko Pot" was corrected to "Sea Otter Pot" from Golden Kamuy.

Source: Twitter Trend Awards twitter account via Yara-on!